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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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secure Report output using Azure Information Protection API

Because of the new General Data Protection Regulation we would like to be able to select an option to secure all Cognos 11 report outputs so that even when the downloaded output files (excel, pdf,..) are distributed to other people (via mail, usb,...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Backup and Log Archive into private Clouds ownCloud/Nextcloud

Backup and Log Archive into a Cloud Storage
about 8 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Cognos BI DQM properties for Amazon Redshift Database Processing

Cognos BI XQE properties for Amazon RedShift currently does not support many new database functions, including MEDIAN, PERCENTILE_CONT, PERCENTILE_DISC etc. as per Amazon RedShift 2014 release notes. a. PERCENTILE_CONT b. PERCENTILE_DISC c. REGEXP...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Display MSAS Measures folder correctly in list of measures when displayed in Cognos applications

MSAS \ SASS cube Measures folder is displayed in the middle of the list of Measures when the cube is opened in Cognos applications and looks strange, intuitive and should not be ordered this way.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

VEMKD performance improvement by caching VEM_LOGON

When we do regression test say 800 instances, 50K slots, we found out VEMKD thinking a long time. By having checked performance, it took minutes to finish VEM_LOGON. We request to either cache logon information to eliminate unnecessary ones
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Future consideration

User defined Grid Columns

Introduce the ability for users to amend columns in a grid view swapping in and out object fields
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Incorporate standard logging of events on OpenPages application server

Our company have a standard in submitting all application logs to our enterprise SIEM tool for monitoring. We had inquired with the OpenPages Product Support team but their response was at the time, no standard messaging capabilities - see TS00260...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Infrastructure/Conformance 2 Future consideration

Enable the Usage of alt. Hierarchies in SUBNM Formulas

When creating a custom or dynamic report the SUBNM element selection is pretty much the heart of those. Allowing Hierarchies to be used in the SUBNM element selection can drastically enhance the end user experience by tailoring the visible element...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Incorporate Active Reports into Event Studio

We would like to request an urgent enhancement request for IBM Cognos 10.2+. We currently are unable to use Event Studio to schedule and trigger Active Report sendouts. This we believe is a vital missing element of the use of Event Studio in v10. ...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve the User Interface of SPSS to be as User Friendly as JMP

Making the user interface do more and easier to use would broaden the market for SPSS. Some examples of things you can do in the user interface of JMP that would be good to add to SPSS: Automatically name dummy variables to reflect the different v...
over 1 year ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration